pecunious

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So, this week, you discovered that the least pecunious players at the table were playing from a deck comprised only of face cards, which was needed of course to reverse their fortunes: Bank of America (BAC +62. 9\%), Citigroup (C +35. 4\%), HSBC (HBC +23. 1\%), JP Morgan

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  1. Full of money; rich; wealthy. [Obsolete or rare.] Praye for the, pol by pol yf thow be pecunyous. Piers Plowman (C), xiii. 11. But in very truth money is as dirt among those phenomenally pecunious New Yorkers. Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 152.

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  1. from Middle English pecunyous, from Old French pecunieux, French pécunieux = Provencal pecunios = Spanish Portuguese Italian pecunioso, from Latin pecuniosus, having much money or wealth, from pecunia, wealth, money: see pecunie.
 

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